Life while building the dam, 1934
This file appears in: Damming the Columbia: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
This simple town sprung up to serve the needs of the workers building the Grand Coulee dam.
Image L87-1.3443-34 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
This file appears in: Damming the Columbia: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
Damming the Columbia: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
Talk of a Columbia River dam began in arid Ephrata, Washington in 1917, when city leaders met to discuss ways to boost wartime food production. If glacial dams once plugged the river, they argued, why…